Notes about Machine Learning fundamentals

I have decided to try a different tack in this post. Gradually as I learn some basic ideas about statistics and Machine Learning I will update this post with code, graphs or procedures used to configure tools. So in a few weeks I will have charted a simple course through the basic Machine Learning terrain. I hope. But these are just basic ideas to prepare oneself to read a more advanced math text.

Install GraphLab Create with Command Line

Step 1: Ensure Python 2.7.x

Anaconda with Python 2.x installation didn’t complete in my Windows 7 machine due to some access restriction. It couldn’t set this version of Python as the default.
So I installed Anaconda with Python 3.x. GraphLab works with only Python 2.x

In order to create a Python 2.7 environment the command used is

conda create -n dato-env python=2.7 anaconda

This was blocked by my Virus Scanner and I had to coax our security team to update my policy settings to allow this.